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HISTORY OF MABEN

THE PRESENT SITE OF MABEN WAS FIRST CALLED GOODWATER. GOODWATER WAS CHOSEN AS THE NAME BECAUSE THERE WAS A WELL OF VERY GOOD WATER THERE. ON JULY 13 1889 THE NAME WAS CHANGED TO MABEN.

JULY 13 1889 NAMED CHANGED TO MABEN

FEB 13 1890 MABEN RECEIVED IT CHARTER

1890 BOARDING SCHOOL WAS ESTABLISHED CALLED MABEN PUBLIC SCHOOL AND TRAINING COLLEGE.

THE FIRST SCHOOL WAS NAMED CROSS ROADS TEACHER WAS MISS LODA RICHEY FROM STARKVILLE

ALSO TEACHERS WERE PROFESSOR KIRBY AND HIS ASSISTANT MISS STELLA HEARKREADER FROM VERONA MS.

1914 A BRICK SCHOOL BUILDING WAS BUILT

MABEN WAS ESSENTIAL FOR BEING A TRADING PLACE FOR FARMERS.

FIRST DOCTOR IN MABEN WAS DR O.B. COOK THEN DR. HARRINGTON AND DR O'NEAL FOLLOWED BY DR. S.S. THOMAS DR. RANDLE, W.B. HARPOLE AND H.J. HARPOLE WAS THE FIRST AND ONLY DENTIST IN MABEN.

DR. COOKE ESTABLISHED THE FIRST HOTEL AND LIVERY STABLE AND FURNISHED TEAMS TO SALESMEN WHO THEN TRAVELED TO TOWNS NORTH OF MABEN. MR. BEN SANDERS ALSO BUILT A HOTEL AND LIVERY STABLE.

IN 1889 MABEN BEGAN TO GROW MR. JOHN SHERMAN BUILT HIS STORE AND MOVED FROM DOUBLE SPRINGS.

NARON AND MANCIL BUILT THEIR STORE ON THE CORNER WHERE THE WATER TANK NOW STANDS.

DR. OB COOKE MOVED FROM CUMBERLAND AND BUILT HIS STORE ABOUT WHERE THE PRESENT DRUG STORE NOW STANDS. JOHN WAX WAS HIS CLERK.

J.A. THOMAS BUILT HIS BRICK STORE AND ANDREW THOMAS BUILT HIS STORE.

MAJOR ALFORD BUILT ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE STREET AND MR. QUINN AND JIM SANDER BUILT A STORE NEAR BY.

SAM DELOACH OPERATED A COTTON YARD

MR. NARON WAS THE TOWNS FIRST MAYOR AND BEN SANDERS WAS THE FIRST MARSHALL.

FIRST TELEPHONE EXCHANGE WAS RUN BY BAZIL PALMER.

BETWEEN 1916 AND 1924 W.C. SANDERS SERVED A NUMBER O F YEARS AS MAYOR HE WAS ALSO THE FIRST FIRE CHIEF OF MABEN.

E. LOVETT ESTABLISHED THE MABEN PRESS IN 1904

NOV 1906 A HURRICANE HIT MABEN. IT WRECKED NEARLY ALL THE STORE AND DAMAGED SEVERAL HOMES.

1837 THE MABEN CEMETERY WAS ESTABLISHED THOMAS B HENTZ WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO BE BURIED THERE.

THE VICK CHEESE COMPANY WAS ALSO LOCATED IN MABEN.

AUG 1888 A POST OFFICE WAS ESTABLISHED WILLIAM CUMMINGS WAS THE FIRST POST MASTER

MABEN'S FIRST LIBRARY WAS OPENED IN A FORMER GASOLINE SERVICE STATION BUILDING LOCATED OUTSIDE OF THE CENTER OF TOWN. MOVED IN 1967 TO THE NEW BUILDING.